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Quotes About Surrender

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lord, make me chaste - but not yet.
~ St. Augustine
God does not ask your ability, or your inability. He asks only your availability.
~ Mary Kay Ash
We have fought this fight as long, and as well, as we know how. We have been defeated ... there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
~ Robert E. Lee
God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.
~ A. W. Tozer
I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
~ Robert Burns
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
~ Oscar Wilde
Oh my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.
~ Bible
Put aside the need to know some future design and simply leave your life open to what is needed of it by the Divine forces.
~ Emmanuel
God speaks to all individuals through what happens to them moment by moment.
~ J. P. DeCaussade
Love me without fear Trust me without questioning Need me without demanding Want me without restrictions Accept me without change Desire me without inhibitions For a love so free . . . Will never fly away.
~ Dick Sutphen
Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
~ Alice James
Not my will, but thine, be done.
~ Bible
When you first learn to love hell, you will be in heaven.
~ Thaddeus Golas
And there are no words left, try as men may, to describe that little death, that incandescent instant when, transacted with mutual love, there is no difference between sweet submission and exquisite conquest.
~ Isolde Martyn
Ona ih je sve zalu?ivala, jer su ludi ro?eni, varala, jer su želeli da budu prevareni, i na kraju, uzimala im samo ono što su i ina?e bili rešeni da bace i izgube.
~ Ivo Andri?
What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.
~ Ivo Andric
Acceptance means that you know, regardless of what happened, that there is something bigger than you at work. It also means you know that you are okay and that you will continue to be okay.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
When a thing has served its purpose, it will go away. If you try to hold on to something that has already fulfilled its purpose in your life, you are going to hurt yourself. If holding on is disturbing your peace of mind, it makes sense to let go. Surrender all attachments to people and things that you have been struggling to hold on to.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
The greatest gift of surrender was that it helped me to realize that it is arrogant of me not to forgive myself when God forgives me.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Before you can live a part of you has to die.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
The biggest choice for me was surrendering the need to understand.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
We've got to learn how to trust ourselves and dare to acknowledge what we really feel. We've got to learn how to trust that God is in the mix and that we are a part of God. We've got to learn how to trust each other to do the right thing because it's the right thing. We've got to learn how to trust in the process of life and surrender our inflated human egos. Because
~ Iyanla Vanzant
INCREASES OUR CHANCES TO RECEIVE WITHOUT DOING ANYTHING.
~ Iyanla Vanzant